From: "David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus)" <dformosa@usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Re: I find the perl syntax easier than python
Message-ID: <slrnf3kk20.o5h.dformosa@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 21:02:45 GMT

On 03 May 2007 19:21:12 GMT, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote:

> In Perl5, you aren't tempted to use named variables, so you get
> your arguments in an array. And given an array, it's natural to
> allow a variable number of arguments:
>
>
>     sub addprint {my $sum = 0; $sum += $_ for @_; print $sum, "\n"}

So you do something like this

sub addprint (*@num) { say [+] @num };